Verona Bryk

“He went like that,” Spade said, “like a fist when you open your hand.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon

“Glorious Leader, we are approaching the galaxy known as the Milky Way,” reported the navigator.
“The one named after a candy bar. How silly those Earthlings are.”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

“Mary’s supposed to be the opposite of Eve, but I bet she had childbirth pain just like everyone else.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

“It is often only when we have the occasion to taste, once again, that which we have lost, that the floodgates open and we are undefendably, confronted with the full experience of the loss."

From The Island of Serenity, Book 1, Survival, new edition”
― Gary Edward Gedall, Survival